- From: Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 13:19:24 -0700
- To: "'Judith Slein'" <slein@wrc.xerox.com>
- Cc: "'Roy T. Fielding'" <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>, w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Obviously I will need to read the new version of the document but otherwise, I agree. Yaron > -----Original Message----- > From: Judith Slein [SMTP:slein@wrc.xerox.com] > Sent: Monday, September 22, 1997 12:02 PM > To: Yaron Goland > Cc: 'Roy T. Fielding'; w3c-dist-auth@w3.org > Subject: RE: Comments on draft-ietf-webdav-requirements-02.txt > > I have made all the changes suggested during the last call period, > with the > exception of changing the name of the document from requirements to > recommendations. > > To address Roy's concern that someone could misconstrue the document > as a > set of compliance requirements on all Internet applications, I would > like to > do two things: > > 1. Change the title to "Requirements for a Distributed Authoring and > Versioning Protocol for the World Wide Web" > > 2. Change the abstract to say "This document presents a list of > features in > the form of requirements for a Web Distributed Authoring and > Versioning > protocol which, if implemented, would improve the efficiency of common > remote editing operations, etc., etc." > > Yaron's concern about using the term "requirements" is a different one > from > Roy's, I think. It is more that we don't want to get ourselves into > the bind > of committing to doing things that turn out to be impossible, because > of > schedule, resources, or the pure practicalities of implementation. I > would > like to address it by changing the Introduction: > > 3. Add a disclaimer to the Introduction to make it clear that it may > not be > possible to satisfy all of these requirements. So the last paragraph > of the > introduction would read: > > "This document reflects the consensus of the WWW Distributed Authoring > > and Versioning working group (WebDAV) as to the functionality that > should be > standardized to support distributed authoring and versioning on the > Web. As > with any set of requirements, practical considerations may make it > impossible to satisfy them all. It is the intention of the WebDAV > working > group to come as close as possible to satisfying them in the > specifications > that make up the WebDAV protocol." > > --Judy > Name: Judith A. Slein > E-Mail: slein@wrc.xerox.com > Internal Phone: 8*222-5169 > External Phone: (716) 422-5169 > Fax: (716) 265-7133 > MailStop: 105-50C
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